Great tales from English history, Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution, Robert Lacey, Volume II
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Great tales from English history, Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution, Robert Lacey, Volume II
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history
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Great tales from English history
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62299305
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Robert Lacey
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Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution
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In this second volume of short essays, renowned historian Robert Lacey opens with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the flowering of the modern English language in the final years of the 14th century and ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, when Parlaiment secured control over the Crown. Along the way we hear about Dick Whittington and his cat, the origin of the V sign at Agincourt, The Wars of the Roses and all the pivotal events that have fashioned a nation
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